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I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance

CLARKSON: Are you fond of babies? VIOLET: Of course. CLARKSON: What's your favourite age? VIOLET: About sixteen.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

corner of the Green Park and Piccadilly, Maria knew

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

When grief is becoming, it is also suspect.

We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.

What does she do?"
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.
I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.

When young and clever men are angry, they either explode or achieve great things.

Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

At my age, one must ration one's excitement

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ...

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

The price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.

moment that the parents of one's friends choose to die or go to

I can be as contrary as I choose.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

War makes early risers of us all.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.

Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I just don't believe in generalisations.

Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that
he's an actor!

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I'm not romantic. But I shall think that the heart has other uses, rather than just pumping blood.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy?